Curriculum Vitae
Adrian L. Melott
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
(785) 864-3037
melott@ku.edu
Scientific Organizations (chronological by membership date)
American Physical Society
Elected Fellow 1996 “For groundbreaking studies of the origin and evolution of
cosmic structure.”
Joseph A. Burton Forum Award 2002 “to recognize outstanding contributions to
public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of
physics and society”
American Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
National Center for Science Education
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Fellow 2007
“For distinguished contributions to cosmological large-scale structure, for
organizing public support for teaching evolution, and for interdisciplinary
research on astrophysical impacts on the biosphere.”
The Paleontological Society
Academic History
May 1994Professor of Physics and Astronomy
May 1990-1994
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
August 1986-May 1990
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kansas
September 1983-August 1986
Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow
(An honorary independent research position)
University of Chicago
January 1982-August 1983
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh
April 1971-June 1978
Minister, Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Tampa, Florida
Visiting Positions
Fall 1999: Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 1992: Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Astronomy
Cambridge University, UK
Spring 1984: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics
University of California at Santa Barbara
June 1983: Visiting Fellow, Dept. Astrophysics, Oxford University, UK
January-May 1983: IREX Fellow, Moscow State University, USSR
Education
Ph.D. Physics, 1981
University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712
Dissertation Supervisor: Dennis W. Sciama
Title: Massive Neutrinos as Galactic Halo Material: Radiative Decay
Constraints and Gravitational Superclustering
(one semester spent at Dept. Astrophysics, Univ. of Oxford, UK)
M.A. Physics, 1977
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
M.Div. Seminary, 1971
Starr King School for Religious Leadership, Berkeley, California
B.S. Physics, 1968
Bethany College, West Virginia
(Student body president, 1967)
Other Prizes and Awards
Dudley Award, Dudley Observatory, "Topology of the Universe" (August 1987).
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU--Steeples Award for Service to the Citizens of
Kansas, (May 2001)
Outstanding Educator Award, Pi Delta Kappa education fraternity (2003)
Barbara Schowen Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, KU (2013)
Refereed Publications
1. Le Chatelier's Principle (A.L. Melott) Journal of Chemical Education 45, A519 (1968).
2. Quasar Lyman-alpha Absorbers: Are Precise Conclusions Possible? (A.L. Melott)
Astrophysical Journal 241, 889 (1980).
3. Neutrino-lifetime Constraints from Neutral Hydrogen in the Galactic Halo (A. Melott
and D.W. Sciama) Physical Review Letters 46, 1369 (1981).
4. Decaying Neutrinos as a Photoionization Source in Galactic Halos (D.W. Sciama and
A. Melott) Physical Review D 25, 2214 (1982).
5. Simulation of Gravitational Superclustering of Massive Neutrinos (A.L. Melott)
Physical Review Letters, 48, 894 (1982).
6. Massive Neutrinos in Large-Scale Gravitational Clustering (A.L. Melott) Astrophysical
Journal 264, 59 (1983).
7. The Formation of Galactic Halos in the Neutrino-adiabatic Theory (A.L. Melott)
Nature 296, 721 (1982).
8. Two-Dimensional Simulation of the Gravitational Superclustering of Collisionless
Particles (A.L. Melott) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 202, 595
(1983).
9. The Bend in the Correlation Function: The Surviving Imprint of Adiabatic
Perturbations? (A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal Letters 273, L21 (1983).
10. Two-Dimensional Numerical Modelling of Formation of Superclusters from
Collisionless Particles: Two-Point Correlation Functions (in Russian) (A.L. Melott)
Astronomicheskii Zhurnal 61, 1079 (1984). [Soviet Astronomy 28, 631 (1984)].
11. Clustering Velocities in the Adiabatic Picture of Galaxy Formation (A.L. Melott)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 205, 637 (1983).
12. Direct Dissipationless Formation of Filaments in the Large-Scale Matter Distribution
(A.L. Melott) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 204, 7P (1983).
13. The Two Point Correlation Function as an Indicator of Nonlinear Clustering (in
Russian) (A.L. Melott) Pis 'ma v Astronomicheski Zhurnal 9, 519 (1983). [Soviet
Astronomy Letters 9, 273 (1983)].
14. Three-Dimensional Simulation of Large Scale Structure in the Universe (J. Centrella
and A. Melott) Nature 305, 196 (1983), also reprinted in Inflationary Cosmology a
collection edited by L.F. Abbott and S.Y. Pi (World Scientific: Singapore) (1986).
15. Pancakes and the Formation of Galaxies in a Neutrino-Dominated Universe (P.
Shapiro, K. Struck-Marcell, and A. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 275, 405 (1983).
16. Cluster Analysis of the Nonlinear Evolution of Large Scale Structure in an
Axion/Gravitino/Photino Dominated Universe (A. Melott, J. Einasto, E. Saar, I. Suisalu,
A. Klypin and S. Shandarin) Physical Review Letters 51, 935 (1983).
17. Dwarf Satellite Galaxies and Radiative Decay of Elementary Particles Composing
Galactic Halos, (in Russian) (A.L. Melott) Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 61 817 (1984).
[Soviet Astronomy 28 478].
18. Can a Neutrino-Dominated Universe be Rejected? (A.L. Melott) Astrophysical
Journal 289, 2 (1985).
19. Statistical Comparison of Galaxy Formation Models: The Bispectrum (J.N. Fry and
A. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 292, 395 (1985).
20. QSO Metal-Line Absorbers: The Key to Large-Scale Structure? (A.P.S. Crotts, A.
Melott, D.G. York, and J.N. Fry) Physics Letters 155B, 251 (1985).
21. Can "Warm" Particles Provide the Missing Mass in Dwarf Galaxies? (A. Melott and
D.N. Schramm) Astrophysical Journal 298, 1 (1985).
22. An Independent Test of Biased Galaxy Formation with Cold Particles: The Three
Point Function (A. Melott and J.N. Fry) Astrophysical Journal 305, 1 (1986).
23. On the Reliability of Virgo Infall in Estimating the Mass Density of the Universe (H.
Bushouse, A. Melott, J. Centrella, and J. Gallagher) Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society 217, 7P (1985).
24. The Sponge-Like Topology of the Large Scale Structure in the Universe (J.R. Gott,
A. Melott, and M. Dickinson) Astrophysical Journal 306, 341 (1986).
25. Comment on "Nonlinear Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology" , (A.L. Melott)
Physical Review Letters 56, 1992 (1986).
26. Deviation from Rubble Flow, Biased Galaxy Formation, and the Mass Density of the
Universe (A.L. Melott) Physical Review Letters 57, 257 (1986).
27. Voids and Velocities in Initially Gaussian Models for Large Scale Structures (A.L.
Melott) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 228, 1001 (1987).
28. A Quantitative Approach to the Topology of Large Scale Structure (J.R. Gott, D.
Weinberg, and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 319, 1 (1987).
29. The Formation of Large-Scale Structure from Cosmic String Loops and Cold Dark
Matter (A.L. Melott and R.J. Scherrer) Nature 328, 691 (1987).
30. The Topology of Large Scale Structure I: Topology and the Random Phase
Hypothesis (D. Weinberg, J.R. Gott, and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 321, 2
(1987).
31. Comparisons of Large-Scale Structure Models with Gaussian Initial Conditions
Against the Distribution of Abell Clusters (D. Batuski, A.L. Melott, and J. Burns)
Astrophysical Journal 322, 48 (1987).
32. The Topology of Large Scale Structure II: Nonlinear Evolution of Gaussian Models
(A. Melott, D. H. Weinberg, and J. R. Gott III) Astrophysical Journal 328, 50 (1988).
33. Has Dark Matter Decay Been Detected? (A. Melott, D.W. McKay, and J.P. Ralston)
Astrophysical Journal Letters 324, L43 (1988).
34. One Model for Magnetic Solar Neutrino Interactions, Cosmological Neutrino Decays,
and New Particle Resonant Production by Neutrino Interactions from Cygnus X-3
(J.P. Ralston, D.W. McKay, and A.L. Melott) Physics Letters 202B, 40 (1988).
35. A Case Study of Large Scale Structure in a 'Hot' Model Universe (J.N. Centrella,
J.S. Gallagher III, A.L. Melott, and H.A. Bushouse) Astrophysical Journal 333, 24
(1988).
36. Large-Scale Structure from Cosmic String Loops in a Baryon Dominated Universe
(A.L. Melott and R.J. Scherrer) Astrophysical Journal 331, 38 (1988).
37. The Topology of Superclusters: A Window on the Early Universe (A.L. Melott)
General Relativity and Gravitation 21, 495 (1989).
38. Void Statistics, Scaling, and the Origins of Large-Scale Structure (J.N. Fry, R.
Giovanelli, M.P. Haynes, A.L. Melott, and R.J. Scherrer) Astrophysical Journal 340, 11
(1989).
39. The Formation of Large-Scale Structure from Cosmic Strings and Massive
Neutrinos (R.J. Scherrer, A.L. Melott, and E. Bertschinger) Physical Review Letters 62,
379 (1989).
40. Topology of Large Scale Structure III: Observations ( J .R. Gott, J. Miller, T .X.
Thuan, S.E. Schneider, D.H. Weinberg, C. Gammie, K. Polk, M. Vogeley, S. Jeffrey,
S.P. Bhavsar, A.L. Melott, R. Giovanelli, M.P. Haynes, R.B. Tully, and A.J.S. Hamilton)
Astrophysical Journal 340, 625 (1989).
41. The Area of Isodensity Contours and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
(B.S. Ryden, R.J. Scherrer, A.L. Melott, D.A. Craig, J.R. Gott, D.H. Weinberg, S.P.
Bhavsar, and J.M. Miller) Astrophysical Journal 340, 647 (1989).
42. Editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Topology of the Large-Scale Structure of
the Universe, (A.L. Melott) proceedings of the April, 1988 Lawrence, Kansas workshop,
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 100, 1306-1404 (1988).
43. Gravitational Instability with High Resolution (A.L. Melott and S.F. Shandarin)
Astrophysical Journal 343, 26 (1989).
44. A Model for the Formation of the Local Group (P.J.E. Peebles, A.L. Melott, M.R.
Holmes, and L.R. Jiang) Astrophysical Journal 345, 108 (1989).
45. Topology of Large Scale Structure IV: Topology in Two Dimensions (A.L. Melott,
A.P. Cohen, A.J.S. Hamilton, J.R. Gott III, and D.H. Weinberg) Astrophysical Journal
345, 618 (1989).
46. The Topology of Large Scale Structure in the Universe (A.L. Melott) Physics
Reports 193, 1 (1990).
47. Gravity in Twisted Space (K. Farrar and A.L. Melott) Computers in Physics 4, 185
(1990).
48. Comparison of Likely Candidate Models for Abell Cluster Structures Against the
Observed Distribution (D.J. Batuski, A.L. Melott, R.J. Scherrer, and E. Bertschinger)
Astrophysical Journal 367, 393 (1991).
49. Minimal Spectrum of Long- Wave Perturbations: Is Linear Growth Correct only in the
Nonlinear Regime? (S.F. Shandarin and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 364, 396
(1990).
50. More Resolution Isn't Always Better Resolution (A.L. Melott) Comments on
Astrophysics 15, 1 (1990).
51. Generation of Large-Scale Cosmological Structures by Gravitational Clustering (A.L.
Melott and S.F. Shandarin) Nature 346, 633 (1990).
52. Gravitational Clustering in the Expanding Universe: Controlled High-Resolution
Studies in Two Dimensions (J.F. Beacom, K.G. Dominik, A.L. Melott, S.P. Perkins, and
S.F. Shandarin) Astrophysical Journal 372, 351 (1991).
53. A Quantitative Measure of Phase Correlations in Density Fields (R.J. Scherrer, A.L.
Melott, and S.F. Shandarin) Astrophysical Journal 377, 29 (1991).
54. The Topology of Large Scale Structure: VI. Slices of the Universe (C. Park, J.R.
Gott 111, A.L. Melott, and I.D. Karachentsev) Astrophysical Journal 387, 1 (1992).
55. The Three-Point Function in an Ensemble of Numerical Simulations (J.N. Fry and
A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 393, 431 (1992).
56. The Void Spectrum in Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Gravitational
Clustering (G.A.M. Kauffmann and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 393, 415 (1992).
57. Coherent Structures in the Universe and the Adhesion Model (L. Kofman, D.
Pogosyan, S.F. Shandarin, and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 393, 437 (1992).
58. Can Neutrino Decay Driven Mock Gravity Save Hot Dark Matter? (R.J. Splinter and
A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 394, 7 (1992).
59. Tests of Smoothing Methods for Topological Study of Galaxy Redshift Surveys (A.L.
Melott and K.G. Dominik) Astrophysical Journal Supplement 86, 1 (1993).
60. Filamentary and Hierarchical Pictures: Kinetic Energy Criterion (A.A. Klypin and
A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 399, 397 (1992).
61. Does Faint Galaxy Clustering Contradict Gravitational Instability? (A.L. Melott)
Astrophysical Journal Letters 393, 145 (1992).
62. Testing Approximations for Non-Linear Gravitational Clustering (P. Coles, A.L.
Melott, and S.F. Shandarin) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 260,
765 (1993).
63. Controlled Experiments in Cosmological Gravitational Clustering (A.L. Melott and
S.F. Shandarin) Astrophysical Journal 410, 469 (1993).
64. Galaxy Clustering: Why Peebles and Zel'dovich were Both Right (A.L. Melott)
Comments on Astrophysics 16, 321 (1993).
65. The Three-point Function in an Ensemble of Three Dimensional Simulations ( J .N .
Fry, A.L. Melott, and S.F. Shandarin) Astrophysical Journal 412, 504 (1993).
66. Improving the Reconstruction of the Velocity Potential and Primordial Density
Fluctuations by Choice of Smoothing Windows (A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal
Letters 414, 173 (1993).
67. Higher Order Moments of the Matter Distribution in Scale-Free Cosmological
Simulations with Large Dynamic Range (F. Lucchin, S. Matarrese, A.L. Melott, and L.
Moscardini) Astrophysical Journal 422, 430 (1994).
68. Optimizing the Zel'dovich Approximation (A.L. Melott, T.F. Pellman, and S.F.
Shandarin) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 269, 626 (1994).
69. Decaying Neutrinos in Galaxy Clusters (A.L. Melott, R.J. Splinter, M. Persic, and P.
Salucci) Astrophysical Journal 421, 16 (1994).
70. Back into the Future with Ya.B. Zel'dovich (A.L. Melott) Comments on Astrophysics
17, 145 (1993).
71. Testing the Frozen-Flow Approximation (A.L. Melott, F. Lucchin, S. Matarrese, and
L. Moscardini) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 268, 69 (1994).
72. A Test of the Adhesion Approximation (A.L. Melott, S.F. Shandarin, and D.H.
Weinberg) Astrophysical Journal 428, 28 (1994).
73. Testing Higher Order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory Against Numerical
Simulations-1. Pancake Models (T. Buchert, A.L. Melott, and A.G. Weiss) Astronomy
and Astrophysics 288, 349 (1994)
74. Comparison of Dynamical Approximation Schemes for Gravitational Clustering (A.L.
Melott) Astrophysical Journal Letters 426, 119 (1994)
75. Testing Higher-Order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory Against Numerical Solutions
2. Hierarchical Models (A.L. Melott, T. Buchert, and A.G. Weiss) Astronomy and
Astrophysics 294, 345 (1995).
76. The Shape of the First Collapsed Objects (S.F. Shandarin, A.L. Melott, K. McDavitt,
J.L. Pauls, and J. Tinker) Physical Review Letters 75, 7 (1995).
77. Biased Power Spectrum and Bispectrum for an Ensemble of Three- Dimensional
Scale Free Numerical Simulations (J.N. Fry, A.L. Melott, and S.F. Shandarin) Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 274, 745 (1995).
78. Hierarchical Pancaking: Why the Zel'dovich Approximation Describes Coherent
Large-Scale Structure in N-Body Simulations (J.L. Pauls and A.L. Melott) Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 274, 99 (1995).
79. Gravitational instability in the strongly nonlinear regime: A study of various
approximations (B.S. Sathyaprakash, V. Sahni, D. Munshi, D. Pogosyan, and A.L.
Melott) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 275, 463 (1995).
80. Evolution of the Potential in Cosmological Gravitational Clustering (A.L. Melott, B.S.
Sathyaprakash, and V. Sahni) Astrophysical Journal 456, 65 (1996).
81. Voids in Real Space and Redshift Space (B.S. Ryden and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical
Journal 470, 160 (1996).
82. A Test of the Particle Paradigm in N-Body Simulations (B. Kuhlman, A.L. Melott, and
S.F. Shandarin) Astrophysical Journal Letters 470, L41 (1996).
83. Temporal Optimization of Lagrangian Perturbation Schemes (G. Karakatsanis, T.
Buchert, and A.L. Melott) Astronomy and Astrophysics 326, 873 (1997).
84. The Ellipticity and Orientation of Clusters of Galaxies in N-body Experiments (R.J.
Splinter, A.L. Melott, A.M. Linn, C. Buck, and J. Tinker) Astrophysical Journal 479, 632
(1997).
85. The Bulls-Eye Effect: Are Galaxy Walls Observationally Enhanced? (E.A. Praton,
A.L. Melott, and M.Q. McKee) Astrophysical Journal Letters 479, L15 (1997).
86. Demonstrating Discreteness and Collision Error in Cosmological N-body
Simulations of Dark Matter Gravitational Clustering (A.L. Melott, S.F. Shandarin, R.J.
Splinter, and Y. Suto) Astrophysical Journal Letters 479, L79 (1997).
87. Testing Tree-Level Perturbation Theory for Large-Scale Structure with the Local
Lagranian Approximation (Z.A.M. Protogeros, A.L. Melott, and R.J. Scherrer) Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 290, 367 (1997).
88. Non-linear Evolution of the Bispectrum of Cosmological Perturbations (R.
Scoccimarro, S. Colombi, J.N. Fry, J.A. Frieman, E. Hivon, and A.L. Melott)
Astrophysical Journal 496, 586 (1998).
89. Fundamental Discreteness Limitations of Cosmological N-Body Clustering
Simulations (R.J. Splinter, A.L. Melott, S.F. Shandarin, and Y. Suto) Astrophysical
Journal 497, 38 (1998).
90. The Bull's-Eye Effect as a Probe of  (A.L. Melott, P. Coles, H.A. Feldman, and B.
Wilhite) Astrophysical Journal Letters 496, L85 (1998).
91. Non-local Scaling in Two-Dimensional Gravitational Clustering (D. Munshi, L.
Chiang, P. Coles, and A.L. Melott) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
293, L68 (1998).
92. Clustering Properties of Low-Redshift QSO Absorption Systems Towards the
Galactic Poles (D. Vanden Berk, J. Lauroesch, a. Stoughton, A. Szalay, D. Koo, A.
Crotts, A. Blades, A. Melott, B. Boyle, T. Broadhurst, and D. York) Astrophysical Journal
Supplement, 122, 355 (1999).
93. Scaling in Gravitational Clustering, 2D and 3D Dynamics (D. Munshi, F.
Bernardeau, A.L. Melott, and R. Schaeffer) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, 303, 433 (1999).
94. Cluster Winds Blow along Supercluster Axes (D.I. Novikov, A.L. Melott, B.C. Wilhite,
M. Kaufman, J.O. Burns, C.J. Miller, and D.J. Batuski) Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, 304, L5 (1999).
95. From Snakes to Stars, Statistics of Collapsed Objects I: Lower-Order Clustering
Properties of Collapsed Objects (D. Munshi, P. Coles, and A.L. Melott) Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, 307, 387 (1999).
96. From Snakes to Stars, Statistics of Collapsed Objects II: Testing a Generic Scaling
Ansatz for Hierarchical Clustering (D. Munshi, P. Coles, and A.L. Melott) Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 310, 892 (1999).
97. Generalised Cumulant Correlators and Hierarchical Clustering (D. Munshi, A.L.
Melott, and P. Coles), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 311, 149
(2000).
98. Massive Cooling Flow Clusters Inhabit Crowded Environments (C. Loken, A.L.
Melott, and C.J. Miller) Astrophysical Journal Letters 520, L5 (1999).
99. Bias and Hierarchical Clustering (P. Coles, A.L. Melott, and D. Munshi),
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 521, L5 (1999).
100. Disentangling the Cosmic Web I: Morphology of Isodensity Contours J.
Schmalzing, T. Buchert, A.L. Melott, V. Sahni, B.S. Sathyaprakash, and S.F. Shandarin
Astrophysical Journal, 526, 568 (1999).
101. Environmental Dependence of the Fundamental Plane of Galaxy Clusters
(Christopher J. Miller, Adrian L. Melott, and Patrick Gorman) Astrophysical Journal
Letters, 526, L61 (1999).
102. Einstein Galaxy Cluster Alignments Revisited (Scott W. Chambers, Adrian L.
Melott, and Christopher J. Miller) Astrophysical Journal 544, 104 (2000).
103. The Size and Shape of Voids in Three-Dimensional Galaxy Surveys (Jason D.
Schmidt, Barbara S. Ryden, and Adrian L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 546, 609
(2001).
104. Recent Dynamical Relaxation of Galaxy Clusters: Evidence for a Low- m
Cosmology (A.L. Melott, S. W. Chambers and C.J. Miller) Astrophysical Journal Letters
559, L75 (2001).
105. The Nearest Neighbor Alignment of Cluster X-ray Isophotes (S. Will Chambers,
Adrian L. Melott, and Christopher J. Miller) Astrophysical Journal 565, 849 (2002).
106. Optimal Moments for the Analysis of Peculiar Velocity Surveys (R. Watkins, H.A.
Feldman, S.W. Chambers, P. Gorman, and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal 564,
534 (2002).
107. Universal Behavior of Phase Correlations in Non-linear Gravitational Clustering (P.
Watts, P. Coles, and A.L. Melott) Astrophysical Journal Letters, 589, L61 (2003).
108. Eccentricity Evolution in Simulated Galaxy Clusters (S.N. Floor, A.L. Melott, C.J.
Miller, and G.L. Bryan) Astrophysical Journal, 591,741 (2003).
109. Optimal Moments for the Analysis of Peculiar Velocity Surveys II: Testing (H.A.
Feldman, R. Watkins, A.L. Melott, and S.W. Chambers) Astrophysical Journal, 599,
820 (2003).
110. Quantifying the Bull's Eye Effect (B.C. Thomas, A.L. Melott, H.A. Feldman, and
S.F. Shandarin) Astrophysical Journal, 608, 28 (2004).
111. Numerical Study of the Cosmological Velocity Field as a Function of Density (A.
Dominguez and A.L. Melott) Astronomy and Astrophysics, 419, 425 (2004).
112. Simulated Versus Observed Cluster Eccentricity Evolution (S.N. Floor, A.L. Melott,
and P.M. Motl) Astrophysical Journal, 611, 153 (2004).
113. Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction? (A.L. Melott,
B.S. Lieberman, C.M. Laird, L.D. Martin, M.V. Medvedev, B.C. Thomas, J.K. Cannizzo,
N. Gehrels, and C.H. Jackman) International Journal of Astrobiology, 3, 55 (2004).
114. Terrestrial Ozone Depletion Due to a Milky Way Gamma-Ray Burst (B.C. Thomas,
C. Jackman, A. Melott, C. Laird, R. Stolarski, N. Gehrels, J. Cannizzo, and D.P. Hogan)
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 622, L153 (2005).
115. Climatic and Biogeochemical Effects of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst (Adrian L.
Melott, Brian C. Thomas, Daniel P. Hogan, Larissa M. Ejzak, and Charles H. Jackman)
Geophysical Research Letters 32, L14808 doi:10.1029/2005GL023073 (2005).
116. Gamma-ray bursts and the Earth: Exploration of Atmospheric, Biological, Climatic,
and Biogeochemical Effects (B.C. Thomas, A.L. Melott, C.H. Jackman, C.M. Laird, M.V.
Medvedev, R.S. Stolarski, N. Gehrels, J.K. Cannizzo, D.P. Hogan, and L.M. Ejzak)
Astrophysical Journal 634, 509-533 (2005).
117. Gamma-ray bursts and terrestrial planetary atmospheres (B.C. Thomas and A.L.
Melott) New Journal of Physics 8, 120 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/8/7/120 (2006).
118. Terrestrial Consequences of Spectral and Temporal Variability in Ionizing Photon
Events (L.M. Ejzak, A.L. Melott, M.V. Medvedev, and B.C. Thomas) Astrophysical
Journal, 654, 373 (2007).
119. Do Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Induce Cycles in Fossil Diversity? (M.V. Medvedev
and A.L. Melott), Astrophysical Journal, 664, 879 (2007).
120. Modeling atmospheric effects of the September 1859 Solar Flare (B.C. Thomas,
C.H. Jackman, and A.L. Melott) Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06810,
doi:10.1029/2006GL029174, (2007)
121. Considering the Case for Biodiversity Cycles: Reexamining the Evidence for
Periodicity in the Fossil Record (B.S. Lieberman and A.L. Melott), PLoS ONE, 2(8):
e759. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000759, (2007)
122. Bone Cancer Rates in Dinosaurs Compared with Modern Vertebrates (L.C.
Natarajan, A.L. Melott, B.M. Rothschild, and L.D. Martin), Transactions of the Kansas
Academy of Science, 110, 155-158, (2007)
123. Superluminous supernovae: No threat from η Carinae (B.C. Thomas, A.L. Melott,
B.D. Fields, and B.J. Anthony-Twarog), Astrobiology 8(1), 9-16 (2008)
doi:10.1089/ast.2007.0181.
124. The Habitable Galaxy: Variation in Space and Time (Adrian Melott) Astrobiology
8(2): 392-393 (2008) doi:10.1089/ast.2008.1245
125. Atmospheric Consequences of Cosmic Ray Variability in the Extragalactic Shock
Model (A.L. Melott, A.J. Krejci, B.C. Thomas, M.V. Medvedev, M.J. Murray, and G.W.
Wilson), (Journal of Geophysical Research—Planets), J. Geophys. Res. 113, E10007,
doi:10.1029/2008JE003206 (2008)
126. Long-term cycles in the history of life: Periodic biodiversity in the Paleobiology
Database (A.L. Melott) PLoS ONE, 3(12): e4044. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004044
(2008).
127. Late Ordovician geographic patterns of extinction compared with simulations of
astrophysical ionizing radiation damage (A.L. Melott and B.C. Thomas), Paleobiology
35, 311-320 (2009). doi:10.1666/0094-8373-35.3.311
128. Testing the link between terrestrial climate change and Galactic spiral arm transit
(A.C. Overholt, A.L. Melott, and M.K. Pohl), Astrophysical Journal Letters 705, L101L103 (2009); erratum ApJ, 751, L45 (2012).
129. Cometary airbursts and atmospheric chemistry: Tunguska and a candidate
Younger Dryas event. (A.L. Melott, B.C. Thomas, G.A. Dreschhoff, and C.K. Johnson)
Geology, 38, 355-358 (2010) doi: 10.1130/G30508.1 See also “Research Focus” April
2010 issue Geology: http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/38/4/383
130. Lookup tables to compute high energy cosmic ray induced atmospheric ionization
and changes in atmospheric chemistry. (Dimitra Atri, Adrian L. Melott, and Brian C.
Thomas), Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics JCAP05(2010)008
doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/05/008 (2010).
131. Atmospheric Consequences of Cosmic Ray Variability in the Extragalactic Shock
Model: II Revised ionization levels and their consequences (Adrian L. Melott, Dimitra
Atri, Brian C. Thomas, Mikhail V. Medvedev, Graham W. Wilson, and Michael J.
Murray) Journal of Geophysical Research—Planets 115, E08002 (2010)
doi:10.1029/2010JE003591
132. Nemesis Reconsidered (Adrian L. Melott and Richard K. Bambach) Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 407, L99-L102 (2010).
doi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00913.x
133. A ubiquitous ~62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil
biodiversity. I. Documentation (Adrian L. Melott and Richard K. Bambach),
Paleobiology, 37, 92-112 (2011)
134. A ubiquitous ~62 Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil
biodiversity: II, Evolutionary dynamics associated with periodic fluctuation in marine
diversity. (Adrian L. Melott and Richard K. Bambach) Paleobiology 37, 383-408 (2011)
135. Astrophysical Ionizing Radiation and the Earth: A Brief Review and Census of
Intermittent Intense Sources (Adrian L. Melott and Brian C. Thomas) Astrobiology 11,
343-361 (2011) doi:10.1089/ast.2010.0603.
136. Modeling high-energy cosmic ray induced terrestrial muon flux: A lookup table
(Dimitra Atri and Adrian L. Melott), Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 80, 701-703
(2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2011.02.020
137. Biological implications of high-energy cosmic ray induced muon flux in the
extragalactic shock model (D. Atri and A.L. Melott) Geophysical Research Letters 38,
L19203. doi: 10.1029/2011GL049027 (2011)
138. A ~60 Myr periodicity is common to marine-87Sr/86Sr, fossil biodiversity, and largescale sedimentation: what does the periodicity reflect? (Adrian L. Melott, Richard K.
Bambach, Kenni D. Petersen, and John M. McArthur) Journal of Geology, 120, 217-226
(2012) DOI: 10.1086/663877
139. “Whilst this Planet Has Gone Cycling On: What Role for Periodic Astronomical
Phenomena in Large Scale Patterns in the History of Life?” (B.S. Lieberman and A.L.
Melott) in J. Talent, editor, International Year of Planet Earth, (IYPE) biosphere volume:
Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations
through Time, Springer Legacy Series, Berlin. pp 37-50. (2012)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3173
140. Declining Volatility, a General Property of Disparate Systems: from Fossils, to
Stocks, to the Stars (Bruce S. Lieberman and Adrian L. Melott) Palaeontology 56, 12971304. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12017 (2013).
141. Causes of an AD 774-775 14C increase. (A.L. Melott and B.C. Thomas) Nature,
491, E1. DOI 10.1038/nature11695 (2012).
142. Terrestrial effects due to possible astrophysical sources of an AD 774-775
increase in 14C production (B.C. Thomas, A.L. Melott, K.R. Arkenberg, and B.R. Snyder
II) Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 1237-1240. DOI: 10.1002/grl.50222 (2013).
(Selected as a “Research Spotlight” by the American Geophysical Union, noted in the
journal and in their newsletter Eos.)
143. Modeling cosmic ray proton induced terrestrial neutron flux: A lookup table (A.C.
Overholt, A.L. Melott, and D. Atri) Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics
118, 2765–2770, (2013) DOI: 10.1002/jgra.50377
144. Cosmogenic nuclide enhancement via deposition from long-period comets as a
test of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. (A.C. Overholt and A.L. Melott) Earth and
Planetary Science Letters 377-378, 55-61. (2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.029
145. Do Periodicities In Extinction-With Possible Astronomical Connections-- Survive a
Revision of the Geological Timescale? (A.L. Melott and R.K. Bambach) Astrophysical
Journal 773, 6-10 (2013). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/773/1/6
146. Biological radiation dose from secondary particles in a Milky Way gamma ray
burst. (Dimitra Atri, Adrian L. Melott, and Andrew Karam) International Journal of
Astrobiology (2013). doi:10.1017/S1473550413000414
147. Cosmic Rays and Terrestrial Life: a Brief Review. (D. Atri and A.L. Melott)
Astroparticle Physics, 53, 186-190 (2014). One of the top five most downloaded papers
for this journal in 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.03.001
148. Analysis of periodicity of extinction using the 2012 geological time scale. (A.L.
Melott, R.K. Bambach) Paleobiology 40, 177-196 (2014). This was designated as the
Featured Article (selected by the editors for its unusual significance) for the spring 2014
issue, and the only one so selected in 2014.
149. Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate
events. (D.F. Smart, M.A. Shea, Adrian L. Melott, and Claude M. Laird) Journal of
Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119, 9430-9440. doi:10.1002/2014JA020378
(2014).
150. Has the Earth been exposed to numerous supernovae within the last 300 kyr?
(A.L. Melott, I.G. Usoskin, G.A. Kovaltsov, and C.M. Laird) International Journal of
Astrobiology, available on CJO2014. doi:10.1017/S1473550414000512 (2014).
151. A link between solar events and congenital malformations: Is ionizing radiation
enough to explain it? (Andrew Overholt and Adrian Melott) Journal of Geophysical
Research: Space Physics, 120.3, 1537-1542. DOI: 10.1002/2014JA020681 (2015)
152. Nitrate Deposition following an Astrophysical Ionizing Radiation Event (Ben
Neuenswander and Adrian Melott) Advances in Space Research 55, 2946-2949 (2015).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2015.03.017
153. Comment on: "Direct evidence of ancient shock metamorphism at the site of the
1908 Tunguska event" by Vannucchi et al. (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 409 (2015) 168-174)
(A.L. Melott and A.C. Overholt) Earth and Planetary Science Letters 415, 213-214. Doi:
10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.021. (2015)
154. A possible role for stochastic radiation events in the systematic disparity between
molecular and fossil dates. (A.L. Melott) accepted for Earth and Life II, a refereed book
(2016)
155. Atmospheric ionization by solar proton events and their probable appearance in
the ice core archive. (A.L. Melott, B.C. Thomas, D. Atri, B. Neuenswander, and C.M.
Laird), submitted (2015).
Non-refereed Publications, Media Accounts, and Outreach (Other)
1. The Invisible Universe (A.L. Melott) Astronomy 9, 66 (1981).
2. Cosmology on a Computer (A.L. Melott) Astronomy 11, #6, 66, and #7, 66 (1983).
3. Some Comments on Gravitational Clustering Simulations of Ino Universes (A.L.
Melott) in Innerspace/Outerspace (E. W. Kolb et al., eds), University of Chicago Press
(1986).
4. The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe: Three-Dimensional Numerical Models (J.
Centrella and A. Melott) in Numerical Astrophysics: a Meeting in Honor of Jim Wilson.
(J. Centrella et al., eds.), Jones and Bartlett, Boston (1985).
5. Use of Supercomputers in Astrophysics (A.L. Melott) Bulletin of the American
Physical Society, 30, 739 (1985).
6. Popularized discussions of my research are contained in these periodicals: National
Geographic (June 1983), Sky and Telescope, (June 1983), Energy and Technology
Review (March 1983), Physics Today (October 1983), Mosaic 15, #2, 2 (1984), and
Scientific American (July 1986).
7. Virgo Infall and the Mass Density of the Universe (A.L. Melott) in Galaxy Distances
and Deviations from Universal Expansion, B.F. Madore and R.B. Tully, eds.
(Dordrecht:Reidel) (1986).
8. Simulations of Large-Scale Structure Compared to Abell Cluster Distribution (D.
Batuski, A.L. Melott, and J. Burns) in Observational Cosmology, proceedings of IAU
Symposium 124, A. Hewitt, G. Burbidge, and L.Z. Fang, eds. (Dordrecht:Reidel) (1987);
there is a substantially similar report in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 130, the
Hungary meeting on Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (J. Audouze and A. Szalay,
eds.) (1987).
9. More popularized discussions are to be found in the New York Times (Nov. 9, 1986,
p.l), Sky and Telescope (December 1986), Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 14,
1987), Explore (Spring 1987), Physics Today (October 1987), The World and I
(November 1987).
10. Topology of the Universe: Motivation for the Study of Large-Scale Structure (A.L.
Melott) in Proceedings of the XIIIth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (M.
Ulmer, ed.), (1987).
11. Topology of the Universe (A.L. Melott) Bulletin of the American Physical Society 32,
1012 (1987).
12. Re-creating the Universe (A.L. Melott) Astronomy 16, #5, 42 (1988).
13. More popularized discussions are to be found in Science News (Feb. 6, 1988),
Computers and the Cosmos (Time-Life Books, 1988), Nature 338, 541 (April 13,1989),
Astronomy 17, #6, 14(1989), Discover (September 1989), Chronicle of Higher
Education (Jan. 3, 1990).
14. A Simple Model for the Formation of the Local Group of Galaxies (A.L. Melott) in
The Epoch of Galaxy Formation, proceedings of the Durham, England NATO Advanced
Research Workshop, (Kluwer:Dordrecht) 1988 (C. Frenk et. al, eds).
15. Numerical Simulations of the Formation of Large Scale Structure in the Universe
(A.L. Melott and J.F. Beacom) in Science at the John von Neumann Supercomputer
Center (G. Cook, ed.) Consortium for Scientific Computing, 1988.
16. Topology of the Universe (A.L. Melott) Abstracts of papers presented to the
American Mathematical Society 9, 390 (1988).
17. Glowing Hot Dark Matter with or without Strings Attached in Dark Matter (J.
Audouze and J. Than Thanh Van, Eds.), Editions Frontieres, Cedex France (1988).
18. Numerical Simulations of the Formation of Large Scale Structure in Cosmic-String
Universes (A.L. Melott and J.F. Beacom) in Science at the John von Neumann
Supercomputer Center (G. Cook, ed.) Consortium for Scientific Computing, 1989 (See
also cover illustration this issue).
19. Radiative Decay of the Tau Neutrino? (A.L. Melott) in '88 Electroweak Interactions
and Unified Theories (J. Than Thanh Van, ed.) Editions Frontieres, France 1988.
20. More popularized discussions are to be found in Science News (Cover photo March
24, 1990)
21. The New Discussion of a Neutrino Mass and Issues in the Formation of Large-Scale
Structure (A.L. Melott) in After the First Three Minutes (S. Holt, C. Bennett, and V.
Thimble, eds), American Institute of Physics (1991).
22. Is There Any Observational Evidence for Non-Gaussian Primordial Density
Fluctuations? (A.L. Melott) in Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation,
proceedings of the 1990 Durham, U .K. NATO Advanced Research Workshop, (T.
Shanks et. al, editors) Kluwer:Dordrecht 1991.
23. The Void Spectrum in Numerical Model Universes (A.L. Melott and G. Kauffmann)
published in proceedings of the Texas/ESO-CERN Symposium on Relativistic
Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics (Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences 647, 672 (1991); Barrow, Mestel, and Thomas, eds.)
24. Nonlinear Gravitational Instability of Random Waves in the Expanding Universe
(A.L. Melott and S.F. Shandarin) in Nonlinear Random Waves and Turbulence in
Nondispersive Media: Waves, Rays, Particles, by S.N. Gurbatov, A.N. Malakov, and A.I.
Saichev (Manchester: Manchester University Press) 1991.
25. Hot Dark Matter with No Strings Attached (A.L. Melott) in Gamma Ray-Neutrino
Cosmology and Planck Scale Physics (D.B. Cline, editor) World Scientific, 1993.
26. Book Review of Hyperspace by M. Kaku, Kansas City Star, April 17, 1994.
27. Using the Zel'dovich Approximation to Understand the Structure in N-body Models
of Dark Matter Dominated Universes, (A.L. Melott and J.L. Pauls), in Sources of Dark
Matter in the Universe (D.B. Cline, editor) World Scientific, 1995.
28. Strategic Basic Research, a letter to the editor of The Scientist, May 30, 1994.
29. Zel'dovich and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, in The Known and
Unknown Zel'dovich, (Nauka:Moscow), R.A. Sunyaev and S.S. Gershtein, ed. (1993).
30. B.S. Sathyaprakash, Varun Sahni, Dipak Munshi, Dima Pogosyan and A.L. Melott
(1995) Comparison of nonlinear approximations to gravitational instability, in
Proceedings of the International workshop on Large Scale Structure in the Universe,
Potsdam, Germany, September 18-24 1994, Eds. J.P. Mucket, S. Gottlober and V.
Muller (World Scientific Publishing).
31. Book review of Pythagoras' Trousers by Wertheim, in Technoscience, winter 1996.
32. How We Happened: The Beginning of Everything, a children's curriculum in
cosmology. Self published.
33. Cosmic Clips, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, extensive footage of gravitational
clustering video used. Also used in Cosmic Journeys, a NASA educational project.
34. J. R. Miller and A. L. Melott, Integrating Mathematics and Science Education Using
the Powers of Ten, Technology and Teacher Education Annual, Proceedings of SITE
97, pp. 1250-1253, April 1997. This paper won the Best Paper award in the software
development area at SITE 97, a national conference in the applications of advanced
technology to education, held in Orlando, FL April 4- 7.
35. "Science-a Nature Religion?", Voice 5, No.1, 4 (1999).
36. About half of " Superclusters of Galaxies Shed Light on Cosmic Architecture" in the
New York Times, Jan. 26, 1999 p. Dl is devoted to discussion of our research on
"superwinds" .
37. "Redshift Surveys and the Value of  ", H.A. Feldman and A.L. Melott, Proceedings
of the Cosmic Flows Workshop, Victoria, Canada, July 1999, ed. S. Courteau, M.
Strauss & J. Willick, ASP series
38. " What Happened to Science Education: Kansas and Beyond", Physics and Society
(APS), 29, 2 (April 2000).
39. "The Big Bang", in A Kansan's Guide to Science (P. Cartwright, R.L. Kaesler, B.S.
Lieberman, and A.L. Melott) Kansas Geological Survey (2000).
40. " Randomized Thoughts of a Cultural Turncoat", in After the Science Wars (K.
Ashman and P. Baringer, eds), Routledge Press, (2001).
41. "How We Threw the Bums Out", Freethought Today, 17(9), November 2000.
42. "Why Would ARN Distribute a Tape of a Debate Phillip Johnson Did Not Win?",
Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 21, 45 (2001).
43. "Fine-tuning and the Anthropic Principle: Cousins to Intelligent Design?" LINK, 1, #3,
3 (2001).
44. "Intelligent Design is Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo", Physics Today, 55, #6, p. 48
(2002).
45. "Ya.B. Zel'dovich and large scale structure: the impact in the United States" , in
Zel'dovich: Reminisces (R.A. Sunyaev, ed) CRC Publications (2004).
46. Book review of "Just Six Numbers" (M. Rees) and "The God Hypothesis" (M. Corey)
in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 24, #3/4, 53 (2004).
47. Comment on “Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away
by Stanek et al. (astro-ph/0604440, not submitted to a journal) 2006.
48. 2003-2005 Extensive media coverage of the group’s gamma-ray burst and mass
extinction work on Nature.com http://www.nature.com/news/2003/030922/full/030922-7.html
New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4198
An Associated Press release http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-01-08-novagamma-death_x.htm and a separate NASA press release
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/gammaray_extinction.html
49. Fossil Biodiversity: Red plus signal, A.L. Melott and B.S. Lieberman (astroph/0606325, not submitted to a journal) 2006.
50. Work on biodiversity fluctuations, cosmic rays, and galactic dynamics: 2006
New Scientist article http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8923--life-waxes-and-wanes-withbobbing-of-the-solar-system.html extensive coverage on a National Geographic TV show
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/extinctions/ (about 20 min into video)
Continued in 2007: Space.com
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070423_cosmic_evo.html , National
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070420-extinctions.html
Geographic.com
Supernovae effects, on Space.com
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080108-eta-carinae.html
51. Comment on 'Discreteness Effects in Simulations of Hot/Warm Dark Matter' by J.
Wang & S.D.M. White. (arXiv:0709.0745, not submitted to a journal)
52. Comment on 'Discreteness Effects in Lambda Cold Dark Matter Simulations: A
Wavelet-Statistical View' by Romeo et al. (arXiv:0804.0589v1, not submitted to a
journal)
53. Physics Today, “Varying Cosmic-Ray Flux May Explain Cycles of Biodiversity” by
B. Schwarzschild, October 2007, pp. 18-20.
54. A.L. Melott, “The Extinction Oscillator”, SEED 22, 28-30 2009.
55. Book review, “Superstition” by Robert Park, Reports of the National Center for
Science Education 30, 59 (2010)
56. Narrative of research "Cosmic Abodes of LIfe" Discover Magazine
by Adam Frank, May 2009 issue, pp 49-50
57. 31 May 2010, Science News, account of the cometary impact analysis.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57790/title/Signs_of_giant_comet_impacts_
found_in_cores See also the “Research Focus” article for the April 2010 issue of
Geology. http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/38/4/383.
Astrobiology Magazine online news item on cosmic ray impact on biosphere
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/3227/death-rays-from-space
Extended radio interview with Premier News Service (660 radio stations) on
GRBs/extinctions
58. 13 July 2010, international media coverage on Nemesis paper, started by Wired
Science http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/nemesis-nomore/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%
2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29 , UK’s daily Telegraph,
and MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38368075/ns/technology_and_sciencespace/ 28 news sites worldwide.
Nature Physics 7, 277 (2011) account “Written in the Stars”
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v7/n4/full/nphys1974.html?WT.ec_id=NPHYS201104
59. “The Earth Dies Screaming: Radiation Threats from Beyond” Analog Science Fiction
and Fact, 132(3), 25, March 2012.
60. 2012 coverage:
New Scientist, a British magazine, ran a small story related to our ideas on GRBs and
mass extinctions. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328465.400-did-star-clusterdeath-rays-zap-earth.html
Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2012/10/16/decoding-a-greatearth-die-off-was-a-gamma-ray-burst-really-the-trigger/
Nature News item associated with publication of short note:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/mysterious-radiation-spike-could-have-beensolar-super-storm.html
61. 2013 coverage: Nature, January: “It Could Happen One Night”, written by Nicola
Jones. Three of the seven destructive phenomenae use primarily our research. Nature
493, 154–156 doi:10.1038/493154a
Astronomy Now (UK): “Altitude sickness”, a 2-page article on the Medvedev-Melott
galactic oscillation model.
Interviews with BBC News and Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Jan 18). See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21082617 and
http://www.space.com/19340-tree-ring-mystery-gamma-ray-burst.html
April: Our paper in GRL was selected as a Research Highlight by the American
Geophysical Union. Also, profiled in the online Science magazine news website:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/scienceshot-solar-blastsuspecte.html?ref=hp
Appeared in Weather Channel special “Gamma Ray Burst”, part of a series of hourlong
programs Forecasting the End. Series repeated with large audience share.
Interview with Japanese national public TV NHK and appearance in their hour-long TV
special “Cosmic Front—the Mystery of 775 AD”.
Major article “Solar Superflares—a new danger from the Sun” in the August 13 issue of
New Scientist (UK). One of three researchers (US; Finland; Israel) interviewed for the
article.
62. arXiv:1401.7276 Comment on: ''Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral
contributed by a comet'' Yi Liu et al.
63. “Could a giant sunburst unplug Earth?” KC Star, Feb 15, 2014
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/15/4826370/could-a-giant-sunburst-unplug.html
64. arXiv:1406.5141 Comment on: 'Observation of 23 Supernovae that exploded <300
pc from Earth during the past 300 kyr' by R.B. Firestone (authors: A.L. Melott, I.
Usoskin, G. Kovaltsov, C. Laird
65. “Dennis Sciama and The Theory of Everything” APS News 24 (2), 2015 (A.L. Melott)
66. Views: 'The Theory of Everything' is missing something. Astronomy & Geophysics
2015 56 (2): 2.9-c-2.9. doi: 10.1093/astrogeo/atv057 (A.L. Melott)
Invited Talks (I present about ten external department colloquia, five major public
lectures, and attend a number of scientific meetings per year, which are not listed
unless an invited talk or other major contribution is made).
1. "Formation of Galaxies and Superclusters in a Universe Dominated by Collisionless
Elementary Particles", at Early Universe Conference, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Abingdon, England, March 21, 1985.
2. "The Computer in Astrophysics: Will the Real Universe Please Stand Up?", American
Physical Society meeting Crystal City, VA, April 24, 1985.
3. "Dark Matter in the Universe: Can We Relate Initial Conditions to Present
Observations?", Fourth Marcel Grossman Meeting on Recent Developments in General
Relativity, Rome, Italy, June 17, 1985.
4. "Bubbles or Sponges: What is the Topology of the Universe?" Keynote lecture at MidAmerica Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, Mo., April 10, 1987.
5. "The Topology of the Universe", Astrophysics Division, American Physical Society,
Washington, D.C., April 22, 1987. Probably the first time an audience of physicists
wore 3D glasses.
6. "Topology of the Universe", American Mathematical Society, 845th meeting,
Lawrence, Kansas, Oct. 18, 1988.
7. "Gravitational Instability with High Resolution", to Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences,
Aug. 15, 1989.
8. Chair, session on Galaxy Clustering, workshop on "Statistical Techniques in
Astronomy", Pennsylvania State University, August 10, 1991.
9. "Structure Formation in a Universe Dominated by Massive Neutrinos", Second UCLA
Conference on Gamma Ray and Neutrino Cosmology, February 15, 1992.
10. "Does Large-Scale Structure Demand Exotic Initial Conditions?", conference on
Assessment of Dark Matter in the Universe, UCLA, February 16, 1994.
11. "Dynamics of Large-Scale Structure in the Universe", American Astronomical
Society, Pittsburgh, June 13, 1995.
12. "Discreteness and Collision Error: the N-Body Skeleton in the Closet", New England
Section of the American Physical Society, Bangor, Maine, April 12, 1997.
13 Sesson Chair, "Relativistic Astrophysics", American Astronomical Society,
Washington, D.C., January 8, 1998.
14. "The Bull's-Eye Effect as a Probe of  0 ", American Physical Society, Columbus,
Ohio, April 17, 1998.
15 "The Bull's-Eye Effect as a Probe of  0 ", American Association of Physics Teachers,
Lincoln, Nebraska, August 6, 1998.
16 "What Happened to Science Education: Kansas and Beyond", American Association
for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, February 15, 2001.
17. " Nbody simulations: the Skeleton in the Closet", NASA/Fermilab Workshop on
Structure Formation and Dark Matter Halos, May 11, 2001.
18. "Nbody simulations: the Skeleton in the Closet", Santa Fe Workshop on Structure
Formation and Dark Matter: Theory vs. Observations, July 17, 2001.
19. American Physical Society, Albuquerque, NM, April 22, 2002, Joseph Burton Forum
Award speaker.
20. Cosmo-02, Chicago, September 19, 2002 "Cluster correlations with large-scale
structure"
21. American Institute of Physics, March 27, 2003, presentation to Assembly of Member
Society Officers "Motivating effective political participation of scientists in local policy
issues".
22. Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA-Ames, March 29, 2004, "Did a gamma-ray
burst initiate the late Ordovician extinction?"
23. Exobiology PI Symposium, NASA-Ames, August 17, 2005 “Do gamma-ray bursts
damage planetary biospheres?”
24. Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington DC, March 29, 2006 “Astrophysical
radiation sources and terrestrial biodiversity”, sponsored by NASA.
25. American Astronomical Society, “Atmospheric damage from ionizing radiation”, May
28, 2007, Honolulu.
26. Bioastronomy 2007, “Consequences of astrophysical ionizing radiation events for
terrestrial planets”, July 20, 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
27. American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, August 15, 2010, Laramie, WY.
“Cometary Impacts and Atmospheric Chemistry”
28. Smithsonian Institution conference “Life in the Cosmos”, two invited talks,
Washington, D.C. Sept 26-27, 2012. “Periodicity in Terrestrial Biodiversity” and
“Zapping Charlemagne’s Power Grid—a Solar Superflare?”
29. American Physical Society, April 2013 meeting, in Denver “Intermittent
Astrophysical Radiation Sources and Terrestrial Life”
30. Kansas State University, annual endowed Peterson Lecture, April 1, 2014: “Death
from the Skies: Astrophysical Threats to Life on Earth”
31. Extreme Space Weather, Boulder, CO June 10, 2014. Invited talk “Missing the trees
for the forest: Time resolution and the nitrate signal in ice cores”
32. Astrobiology Science Conference, June 15-20, 2015. Proposer and co-organizer,
three sessions on radiation and habitability. Session chair, and talk presented “Ionizing
Radiation Episodes and the Evolution of Complex Life”
Graduate Students Supervised
Ph.D (chair)
Randall Splinter (Ph.D. 1995) (Hewlett-Packard Corporation)
Jennifer Pauls (Ph.D. with honors 1997) (Chandler-Gilbert College)
Brian Thomas (PhD. with honors 2005) (Washburn University)
Dimitra Atri (Outstanding Masters award, 2010; Ph.D. 2011) (Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research)
Drew Overholt (Outstanding Masters award, 2011; Ph.D. with honors 2013)
(MidAmerica Nazarene Univeristy)
Ph.D (committee member)
Michael Holmes (Physics) 1988
Joeseph Giacolone (Physics) 1991
Joseph Van Zandt (Philosophy) 1993
Naser Alinejad (Physics) 1995
Capp Yess (Physics) 1997
Terry Sader (Philosophy) 2000
Nurur Rahman (Physics) 2001
Will Chambers (Physics) 2002
Majeed Amini (Chemistry) 2006
M.S. Laura Jiang 1987
David Willmes 1989
Charles Buck 1997
Undergraduate Research Assistants (most with refereed papers)
John Beacom B.S. 1991, (NSF Graduate Fellow; the first D.N. Schramm
Postdoctoral Fellow at Fermilab; Ohio State Prof., physics)
Kurt Dominik B.S. 1992
Todd Pellman B.S. 1994 (Goldwater nominee)
Kathy McDavitt B.S. 1995
Jeremy Tinker B.S. 1996 (Ph.D. 2004 Ohio State; Research Associate at U
Chicago)
Angie Linn B.S. 1997 (Goldwater Scholar 1995-97; Ph.D. Ohio State)
Bryce Kuhlman B.S. 1996 (Goldwater Scholar)
Brian Wilhite B.S. 1998 (Goldwater nominee, McCormick Graduate Fellow, Ph.D.
Chicago 2004; postdoc at Illinois; Asst. Prof, Elmhurst College)
Michael Kaufman B.S. 2000 (currently Wisconsin grad student, plasma physics)
Stephen Floor B.S. 2005; Goldwater scholar (currently postdoc at UC Berkeley,
biophysics)
Hannah Swift (2003; University Scholar, Goldwater Scholar; currently at
UC Berkeley)
Daniel Hogan (2003-2005; Chancellor's Club Scholar; Goldwater Scholar;
Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship nominee; B.S. 2008)
Luis Vargas (co-supervisor 2003; Goldwater Scholar; APS Minority Fellow; B.S.
2008)
Larissa Ejzak (B.A. physics and theatre 2006; graduate student with Fellowship,
physics, Wisconsin)
Lori Natarajan (B.S. Astronomy and Physics 2007)
Alex Krejci (College Dean’s Scholars Program; Finalist, Vanderbilt Prize
for Undergraduate Research in Physics and Astronomy; B.S. Physics
2009)
Sasha Glanville (B.S. Atmospheric Science 2012)
Gregory Pach (2011-2013)
Sam Wester (2013-)
KU Committee Service—outside department
1. Faculty search committee, Computer Science, 1987
2. Graduate School Summer Fellowship Committee, 1991-1992
3. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1992-1995
4. DOE EPSCoR State committee, 1993-1994
5. History and Philosophy of Science Program Committee, 1987-1995
6, Ad hoc faculty committee on introductory science courses 1997-1998
7. Ad hoc committee for KU Internet 2 proposal, 1998
8. Faculty Senate Research Committee, 1997-1998
9. KU Supercomputer Allocation Committee, 1998
10. KU Speakers Bureau, 2003-present (first speaker to be utilized as program began)
11. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002-2005
12. Convener of Astrobiology Working Group, an interdisciplinary research committee,
2003-present.
13. Organizing committee, conference “The Shape of Things to Come”, for 2010.
14. Advisory board member, James Gunn’s Ad Astra SF Journal (2012--
Professional Service and Outreach
I do not list my numerous public talks in high schools, churches, community colleges,
etc. These number about 6-8 in an average year. I am a member of the KU
Speakers Bureau.
1985
National Science Foundation, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing, Review
Committee for Purdue University supercomputer center, 1985.
1986-87
Referee, Astrophysical Journal Letters and Astrophysical Journal
Consultant to Adler Planetarium, Chicago, design of ceiling display on large-scale
structure of the Universe
Faculty promotion and tenure referee, University of New Mexico
Interviews, German and Italian public radio
Provided poster illustration for XIIIth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
1987-88
Referee, Astrophysical Journal letters, Astrophysical Journal, Reviews of Modern
Physics, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Astronomy &
Astrophysics
1988-89
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Referee, National Science Foundation, for funding proposals
Provided illustrations for “From Quarks to the Cosmos:” (Lederman & Schramm)
1989-90
Reviewer of proposals, National Science Foundation
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physical
Review Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
1990-91
Reviewer of funding proposals, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy
Provided simulation pictures for German magazine Geo, and for Pasachoff Astronomy
Text.
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physical
Review D., Phys Rev. Letters
Numerous recommendation letters for persons seeking faculty positions
1991-92
Began service on UVMOWG, a NASA advisory committee, which continues through ’94.
Reviewer of funding proposals for Government of Spain, National Science Foundation,
Department of Energy
Referee Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physical
Review D., Phys Rev. Letters
Provided illustrations for Sky & Telescope, Encounters
Extensive interview for Chronicle of Higher Education
Authored the first video to be published as a supplement to a scientific journal (ApJ)
1992-93
Reviewer for the continued publication of Soviet Astronomy Letters, a translation
journal.
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Publications of the Astronomical Society of
the Pacific, Astronomy & Astrophysics
UVMOWG membership continues
Referee for NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
Referee for Miller Fellowship (UC Berkeley)
1993-94
Reviewer of funding proposals for Canadian Research Council, NASA Astrophysics
Theory Program, NATO postdoctoral fellowships,
Interviews with German, Italian public TV and with The Economist
Letters on science funding published in AAS News and The Scientist;
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Physics Reports, Astronomy &
Astrophysics, Brook/Cole Publishing
UVMOWG membership continues
1994-95
Video supplied for BBC television program on cosmology
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Physical Review Letters, Astronomy &
Astrophysics
Reviewer for NASA (Gravity panel), National Science Foundation, Government of
Germany
Referee for Endowed Professorship, University of Munich
Promotion and tenure referee, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Pune, India
Referee, Germany-Japan scientific exchange grant
1995-96
Tenure referee, Ohio State University
Internal funding referee, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Referee, Physics of Fluids, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Physical Review Letters,
Phys. Rev. D., Astronomy & Astrophysics
Review for funding proposals, National Science Foundation
Conducted lecture series at Kansas City Art Institute
1996-97
Supplied video for Japanese television program “The Birth of the Universe” and for
Display in Tokyo museum “20th Century Matrix”
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Physical Review D, Phys. Rev. Letters,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Organizing committee, Tokyo Meeting on Computational Physics
1997-98
Successfully nominated Jack Burns, Research Vice President of University of Missouri
for APS Fellowship
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Physical Review D, Phys. Rev. Letters,
Science, Reports of the National Center for Science Education
Funding review, National Science Foundation
Promotion referee, Ohio State University, IUCAA (India), University of Madrid,
McDonnell Fellowship (Ohio State)
1998-99
Major effort related to Kansas state public school science standards, which culminated
in the formation of Kansas Citizens for Science, and had a major impact on the
repudiation of these standards by the voters. (Later to be lost when everyone
went to sleep after the 2000 victory…)
Successfully nominated David Weinberg, Ohio State University, for APS Fellowship.
Software reviewer, National Center for Science Education
Promotion and tenure referee, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and Iowa State
University
Referee, Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society
1999-2000
Referee, Physical Review Letters, Phys. Rev. E., Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society
Founding Board Member, Kansas Citizens for Science (monthly board meetings) 19992003
Two additional successful nominations for APS Fellowship
About 25 letters to the editor published in Kansas newspapers, on science standards
About 14 public talks on KS science standards in churches, universities, museums
2000-2001
Referee, Physical Review E, Science
Guest on one-hour call-in talk show on NPR station KERA in Dallas, opposite Intelligent
Design ‘theorist” William Dembski
Funding reviews for NSF, including Career proposal, for National Research Council
Of Canada, and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Promotion referee, University of Maine
KCFS Board
2001-2002
Referee, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Physical Review Letters, Phys. Rev. D.,
Funding reviews, Israel National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National
Science Foundation
KCFS Board
2002-2003
Referee, Publications of the [US] National Academy of Sciences, Europhysics Letters,
Astrophysical Journal Letters, Physical Review E, Rutgers University Press,
Physical Review E
Consultant to League of Women Voters of formulating science policy questions for
state board of education candidates
Funding reviews, Ohio Supercomputer Center, National Science Foundation
Referee, Vanderbilt University Physics Chair search committee
KCFS Board
2003-2004
Change to totally new research area; KU rapidly rises to a noticeable presence in the
confluence of astrophysics and paleobiology.
Referee: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Physical Review E
Successfully nominated L. Krauss of Case Western for APS Burton Forum Award
Funding reviews, National Science Foundation
2004-2005
Referee, Physical Revew D, Phys. Rev. Letters, Astrophysical Journal Letters,
Funding reviews, NASA (LTSA/ADP), National Science Foundation
Another successful nomination for APS Fellowship.
Debate judge, Kansas statewide competition at Free State High School
2005-2006
Radio interview, Our Ocean World
Filming of segments for National Geographic TV special “Extinctions”
Another successful nomination for APS Fellowship
Assist Larissa Ejzak in planning for her play “Burst” presented as KU Theatre honors
project
2006-2007
Successfully nominated Barbara Ryden (Ohio State) for the Chambliss Writing Award of
the American Astronomical Society for her text “Introduction to Cosmology
Major interview for CBC radio science series “Quirks and Quarks”
Funding reviews, NASA, NSF, France-Israel Binational Science Foundation, textbook
proposals (Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Columbia University Press)
Press releases coordinated on (separate) research projects by American Physical
Society and American Geophysical Union
2007-2008
Referee for National Science Foundation
Major interview for 3-page article on our research in Physics Today October 2007:
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/60/10/10.1063/1
.2800087
Session organizer, Astrobiology Science Conference 2008
Reviewer, Research Letters in Physics, Quaternary Research
Elected to Executive Committee of American Physical Society Astrophysics Division
Poster judge, Astrobiology Science Conference
Consultant to New Scientist on large-scale structure news story
Consultant to Animal Planet TV channel on planning for series on extinction events
2008-2009
Speaker at Time Frame, a multidisciplinary panel on time, Spencer Museum of Art,
University of Kansas, October 2008.
Invited speaker, Quadrennial Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics students honorary),
Scientific Citizenship: Connecting Physics and Society, Fermilab, 11/06—11/08.
Referee, Astrophysical Journal and Letters, Int’l. J. of Biometeorology
Op-Ed on climate change, print newspaper.
Executive Committee of American Physical Society Astrophysics Division
2009-2010
Referee, promotion to full professor, private research university.
Invited speaker, American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting
Invited speaker, University of Kansas Science Fiction Writers Workshop
Paper chosen for Research Focus, April issue of Geology
Journal Referee: Icarus
Advances in Space Research
Evolution: Education and Outreach
2010-2011
Referee:
International Journal of Astrobiology
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Science (journal)
National Science Foundation
Presenter, Center for Study of Science Fiction, Writers Workshop
Panelist, “Public Intellectuals”, KU speaker series.
External referee, promotion to Full Professor
Development of Multidisciplinary physics Ph.D. plan, implemented by Dept.
2011-2012
Referee:
Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere
Journal of Biogeography
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific Reports (Nature group)
Physics Today
2012-2013
Reviews provided for:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Astrophysical Journal Letters
International Journal of Astrobiology
Galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
Graduate Recruiter
Composed successful department proposal for graduate fellowships
Consulting Board, James Gunn’s Ad Astra
2013-2014
Consulting Board, James Gunn’s Ad Astra
Nominated one of the recipients of the 2014 Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Annual Peterson Lecture, Kansas State University
Reviews provided for:
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews—Climate Change
Life Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Europhysics Letters
Springer Legacy Series, Berlin, for refereed book
Scientific Reports (Nature group)
International Journal of Astrobiology
Challenges in Astrobiology
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
2014-2015
Consulting Board, James Gunn’s Ad Astra
Reviews provided for:
Frontiers in Life Science
Advances in Space Research
Physical Review Letters
European Research Council
Springer Legacy Series, Berlin, for refereed book
Scientific Reports (Nature group)
International Journal of Astrobiology
Challenges in Astrobiology
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Frontiers in Life Science
Advances in Space Research
Physical Review Letters
European Research Council
Sun & Geosphere
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
NIMB Proceedings
Science
Astrophysical Journal Letters
External Conference/Organizing
1. Organizer, international workshop on Topology of the Large Scale Structure of the
Universe, Lawrence, Kansas, April 26-29, 1988. Proceedings published by PASP.
2. Organizer, workshop on "The Legacy of Ya.B. Zel'dovich for Astrophysics and
Cosmology", Lawrence, Kansas, May 2-6 1990. The only joint workshop organized
between the US-NSF and the Soviet Academy of Sciences under their working
agreement.
5. Member, Management Operations Working Group, NASA Astronomy/Relativity
Branch, 1991-94.
6. Primary organizer, workshop on "Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology", Aspen
Center for Physics, Colorado June 6-26, 1994.
7. Organizer, AAS Topical Session, Pittsburgh meeting, "The Dynamics of Large Scale
Structure" (June 1995).
8. Primary organizer, workshop and conference "Dynamics and Statistics of LargeScale Structure in the Universe", Lawrence, Kansas May 8-12, 1997.
9. Co-Organizer, Great Plains Cosmology Workshop, Lawrence, Kansas May 23, 1998.
10. Founding member and Board member, Kansas Citizens for Science, 1999-2003.
11. Organizer, Science Activists' Summit, Kansas City, a national meeting sponsored by
Kansas Citizens for Science and the National Center for Science Education. March 30
through April 1, 2001.
12. Organizer, topical session for June 2001 AAS Meeting (Pasadena), "Cluster
Properties and Large-Scale Structure"
13. Organizer, invited topical session and 3-day interdisciplinary splinter workshop
“Astrophysical Radiation Sources and Their Impact on Life” held in conjunction with the
American Astronomical Society meeting, May 29-31, 2007, Honolulu.
14. Organizer, “Biodiversity fluctuations in space and time”, topical session for
ABSCICON 08, held in Santa Clara, CA, April 15-17, 2008. Two of the talks in this
session were identified as highlights of the conference in a review by Astrobiology
Magazine.
15. Organized invited and contributed talks for two sessions at April 2013 APS meeting,
entitled “Geophysical Astronomy” and “Energetic Neighbors”. Two contributors invited
for press conference by APS.
16. Co-organizer, multiple sessions at ABSCICON 15, held in Chicago, IL June 2015.